I helped Chris in part because I truly believed, and wanted to prove, and did prove, that he could earn money professionally as an artist with the right structure. With nothing but his living legacy and instantly recognizable 'outsider art style', people would voluntarily part with money for his art.
The other side was that he had never really done anything so wrong to deserve the contempt people had for him. Being a brat was always just a facet of his autism and upbringing. I never saw that as something to hate him for and felt that he'd grow out of it after Barb died.
It was always very transparent to me that the people rooting against Chris just wanted him to suffer because they saw themselves in him and hated that. His autism, his gender issues, his interest in MLP and anime. That's why they hated him but they just offloaded it to some cope like "he drew something racist in 2008" or "he made a 9/11 joke so he's a bad person".
Now, I don't care about his success, I don't think people would support his art, and I don't think he is or can become a good person.
I still think most people who hate Chris do so for reasons they won't admit. And to be clear, I don't hate Chris. I just don't think he should be allowed to live independently or with unmonitored Internet access.